Photos: World’s longest high-speed train line

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A train conductor stands before a high-speed train at the Beijing West Railway Station in Beijing.

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A stewardess walks inside a high-speed train running from the Beijing to Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong province, at the Beijing west railway station. China on Dec. 26 started service on the world’s longest high-speed rail route, the latest milestone in the country’s rapid and sometimes troubled super fast rail network.WANG ZHAO
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A bullet train leaves for Beijing from the Guangzhou South Railway Station in Guangzhou. China has opened the world’s longest high-speed rail line, which runs 2,298 kilometres.Chen Yehua
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A village is photographed from the window of a high-speed train during a journey organized for journalists to showcase a newly built section of track through Hebei province, south of Beijing on Dec. 22.ED JONES
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A display shows the speed aboard a high-speed train in Hebei province south of Beijing.ED JONES
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Children stand on a frozen river and are photographed from the window of a high-speed train during a journey organized for journalists to showcase a newly built section of track through Hebei province.ED JONES
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A conductor stands beside the high speed train of the new 2,298-kilometre line between Beijing and Guangzhou Dec. 26.STR
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A train driver stands at a high-speed rail platform in Hebei province near Beijing on Dec. 22, 2012. China showed off the final link of the world’s longest high-speed rail route, which opened Dec. 26, stretching from Beijing to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.ED JONES
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A conductor gives a booklet to a passenger on the high speed train that runs on the new 2,298-kilometre line between Beijing and Guangzhou.STR
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A stewardess waits to greet journalists boarding a high-speed train at the Beijing West Railway Station in Beijing on Dec. 22.ED JONES
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A train conductor stands aboard a high-speed train departing the Beijing West Railway Station in Beijing.ED JONES
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A stewardess cleans the floor of a high-speed train during a journey organized for journalists to showcase a newly built section of track through Hebei province, south of Beijing on Dec. 22.ED JONES
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A passenger takes a photo with the high speed train before boarding on the new 2,298-kilometre line between Beijing and Guangzhou. China started service on Dec. 26 on the world’s longest high-speed rail route. The opening of this new line means passengers will be whisked from the capital to the southern commercial hub in just eight hours, compared with the 22 hours previously required.STR
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A bridge under construction is seen from the window of a high-speed train during a journey organized for journalists to showcase a newly built section of track through Hebei province, south of Beijing on Dec. 22.ED JONES
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Journalists gathers beside the high speed train of the new 2,298-kilometre line between Beijing and Guangzhou.STR
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The high speed train of the new 2,298-kilometre line between Beijing and Guangzhou waits to start its journey in Beijing on Dec. 26.STR
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A member of security stands guard at an entrance of a platform for a high-speed train at the Beijing west railway station in Beijing. China on Dec. 26 started service on the world’s longest high-speed rail route, the latest milestone in the country’s rapid and sometimes troubled super fast rail network.WANG ZHAO
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